I don't hate God Mikefrey

So I was sitting at the bar last night, as I have done pretty much every day since, oh Thursday, and in between variants of vodka drinks, I pounded my open hand down on the small, round table and declared with determined force that I was going to write a blog entry entitled "I don't hate God Mikefrey." So for all of those in on the joke, here it is. I think that's all of 2 people. Maybe 3. But in any case.

A few housekeeping issues: Vietnam Movie Night. Saturday. Come. I'm renting Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, and Good Morning Vietnam and we'll be hosting a movie marathon at the old homestead of Mark and Angela. Well, the new homestead. You get it. It's BYOB. Come out and have fun.

Now that that's out of the way I shall begin to expound on the last few weeks I've missed. It's mostly all the same, except that last weekend I was forced by the powers that be to work at the ETHA meeting. I spent three days working from about 8 in the morning until. I think I got done about 9:30 both nights. There was drama, stress, heels and pain, some flirting, and lots of coffee and alcohol. I got to bartend for the first time on the same day I delivered my first conference paper. I also witnessed an engagement. That's right folks. An engagement. My friend Melanie is now engaged to the wonderful (if not slightly nerdy) Joseph Pellerin. She said yes before he could even get the question out. I approve, and am very happy for the two of them.

So there's a brief account of the rather detailed experience of the ETHA fall meeting. If you've never been, you should consider coming at least once. I promise there will never be anything quite like it. The important thing about the meeting is that it gave me a chance to reevaluate my life. I finally feel like I have found where I fit in. I felt like at the meeting that this was something that I needed to be a more permanent part of, and I intend to come to the meetings from now on. I hope to be more involved in it. It also gave me a wake up call that I've been really just coasting through and I really need to get my butt in gear. So starting this week I'm going to do that. I'm going to get caught up and try to push myself to get my stuff done. I have several projects that have been on the back burner that need to be on the cooling rack, finished cooking and ready to present. So, my epiphany for the semester happened early. Here goes nothing.